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JOSEPH o. HOWELLS Letters Patent No. 86,544,

,OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

dated Febo-umg 2, 1869.

The Schedule refen'ed to in these Letters Patent and making part of the alma.

Toall whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH O. HoWELLs, of the city and county and State of New York, have invented a' new and improved Box; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to th'ea coompanying'drawings, and

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts inall the drawings.

The nature of my invention consists in adapting a box to contain hair-pins.

In order to this, I cut blanks ofthe shape and form as seen in Figure l. This shape is desirable, for two reasons: it is similar in shape to the articles which it is intended to hold, and it is impossible to make a shallow box, such as is suited to this purpose, (after the manner shown,) without making the end covered by the lappets S S narrower than the other.

I also puncture -the lappets forming the front end of the box, so that it can be fastened by insertingahair- The dotted lines, seen in fig. 1, represent the creases, scores, or cuts made in the blank, so as to fold it readily into shape, which, when folded, appears as seen in Figure 2.

That portion of the blank designed for the lid o'r 'cover of the box (see B, iig. 1,) is cut wider than the rest of the blank, .the more readily to adjust the lid to the'box, when closing the same, as seen in Figure 3.

The holes or punctures a a, as seen in the blank, g. l, also in iigs. 2, 3, and 4, serve as a mode of fastenin or securing the lid or cover in position when the box is closed, by the introduction of a hair-pin into the body of the box, -through the holes or punctures, as at a a, Figure/i.

By; reference to gs. 1 and 2, at `S S, it will be obf served that those portions of the blank or box are cut so as to fold in such a manner as to form an end or ends to the box, independent of the lid vor cover. v I am aware that boxes adapted to other uses, have been made from blanks out with folds and lappets, as shown and described, and therefore I makeV no claim for such blanks or boxes; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a box for hairpins, when made in the shape and manner described.

2. In combination with the box above described, the method of fastening, as set forth.

JOSEPH C. HOWELLS. Witnesses: V

, BULAH Ho'vmLLs, LoUIsA HowELLs. 

